Intelligence vs Cost
Every ranked LLM plotted by intelligence index against blended price per 1M tokens, with the best index per dollar ranked beneath.
| Model | Index | Blended $/M | Index / $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash inclusionAI | 66.4 | $0.0315 | 2,107.6 |
| gpt-oss-20b OpenAI | 46.7 | $0.036 | 1,298.1 |
| gpt-oss-120b OpenAI | 50.2 | $0.0703 | 714 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor Meta | 87.1 | $0.125 | 696.6 |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA | 49.0 | $0.085 | 576.5 |
| Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba | 59.0 | $0.1125 | 524.8 |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B Google DeepMind | 60.9 | $0.1211 | 502.9 |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVIDIA | 43.8 | $0.0875 | 500 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash superseded Alibaba | 56.5 | $0.1138 | 496.4 |
| Solar Pro 4 upstage | 75.2 | $0.1575 | 477.4 |
Index ÷ blended $/1M tokens, top 10. Models below index 40 are excluded — a cheap model that answers nothing is not value. The board's Index / $ column ranks every priced model, with no floor.